The loss of imagination November 16, 2006
Posted by larrybjr in Inner self.trackback
As I’ve gotten older I’ve begun to realize all the things that begin to happen to your physical body as we age. We get more aches and pains. Some of use loose our hair or it turns grey. Our bodies begin to shrink and we eventually loose strength. But one of the most overlooked aspects of our physical self is our mind. Even from the point at which we reach adulthood we begin to become set in our ways and our belief structure is in place.
We loose our sense of creativity and we know longer dream big. As we settle into our “life routine” we forget the ideas we had when we were young. I can remember a time when I was a teenager that I had the whole world in front of me. I wanted to do so many things and I ended up doing almost none of them. I lost my imagination and my ability to dream big.
Gradually through years of life experience some of us are fortunate to gain enough wisdom to see past our mere physical presence. When we realize that there really is more to the world and to physical life than we usually see, we begin to expand the world and our awareness of the beautiful existence we are in. Wisdom however, should not take years to acquire, at least not the all-knowing wisdom of our inner self.
Our greatest error is in life seems to be that we forget who we are. When we are just children the world is filled with endless possibilities but we forget those dreams. We are told that we are not good enough or that we are foolish to reach for the stars. If we recognize the error and we focus on our ability to change our own reality we begin to grow, not expire. Life begins anew, and the dreams we once had come alive within us.
We never lost our dreams or our imagination we simply forgot we had them. Our greatest asset is our ability to make this realization within our lifetime so that we can learn to use it to our advantage. This is what we call purpose. This is what we call meaning.
You have these tools within you now at this very moment. You have forgotten how to apply them. You have temporarily lost your ability to use your energy and your life-force to influence the world as you see fit. But the one thing to remember is that you can regain this ability in the realization that you are more than a lonely physical body. You have the same power that resides in every human being on this planet.
Your talent to create your own world is your key to building a life of unbounded potential. You don’t have to go very far to find this key either. You can begin to look inside your self and ask the questions that only you can answer. Only you decide where you go next. Only you have the key to your door. Realize that this is your chance to have everything that you’ve ever dreamed of and only you are stopping it from coming to you. Allow yourself to be free, let go or our worries. As the proverb says; “Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious”. Let go of all your prior beliefs and open up to your new life.
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